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" Treasury should purchase not less than two million nor more than four million dollars' worth of silver bullion monthly, and coin it as purchased. "
A Coin Catechism - Page 53
by Jacob Kendrick Upton - 1895 - 96 pages
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Bibliotheca Sacra and Theological Review, Volume 53

Bible - 1896 - 806 pages
...purchase of silver bullion was enacted in 1878, and known as the Allison Bill. It required the purchase of not less than two million nor more than four million dollars' worth of silver bullion every month, and its coinage into dollars. The law of 1890, known as the Sherman law, provided...
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Bulletin of the Philosophical Society of Washington, Volumes 3-4

Philosophical Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.), Philosophical Society of Washington, Washington, D.C. - Science - 1880 - 386 pages
...QUESTION. BY the Act of February 28, 1878, the Secretary of the Treasury is required to purchase monthly not less than two million nor more than four million dollars' worth of silver, and coin the same into dollars, 'each dollar weighing 412^ grains, and being nine-tenths fine. The...
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The North American Review, Volume 151

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1890 - 792 pages
...restoring to the coinage the standard silver dollar, provided that the Secretary of the Treasury should purchase not less than two million nor more than four million dollars' worth of silver bullion monthly, and coin it as purchased. The only discretion given him here was between the two million...
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Of Money, the Instrument of Association

Henry Carey Baird - 1890 - 542 pages
...government account only. The Secretary of the Treasury was instructed to purchase not less than two nor more than four million dollars' worth of silver per month and have it coined into standard dollars. He was also authorized to issue certificates for the deposit...
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The Question of Silver: Comprising a Summary of Legislation in the United ...

Louis R. Ehrich - Silver question - 1892 - 132 pages
...The bill of 1878, generally spoken of as the " Bland" bill, directed the secretary of the treasury to purchase not less than two million nor more than four million dollars' worth of silver bullion per month, to coin it into silver dollars, said silver dollars to be full legal tender at "their...
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Cheap-money Experiments in Past and Present Times

Joseph Bucklin Bishop - Currency question - 1892 - 132 pages
...free-coinage bill was introduced in Congress, and in 1878 it was amended so as to provide for the coinage of not less than two million nor more than four million dollars' worth of silver bullion per month into dollars to be full legal tender at their nominal value. This was passed, vetoed...
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The North American Review, Volume 157

North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1893 - 900 pages
...1873, — but on government account ; the law requiring the mandatory purchase and coinage, monthly, of not less than two million nor more than four million dollars' worth of silver bullion, with a further provision authorizing the issue of paper certificates in sums of ten dollars...
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Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume 4

American Academy of Political and Social Science - Political science - 1894 - 904 pages
...government account only. The Secretary of the Treasury was instructed to purchase not less than two ' nor more than four million dollars' worth of silver per month and have it coined into standard dollars. He was also authorized to issue certificates for the deposit...
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Democratic Campaign Book: Presidential Election of 1896

Democratic Party. National Committee, 1896-1900 - Campaign literatur - 1896 - 396 pages
...the Senate by striking out the free coinage provision and providing for the purchase and coinage of not less than two million nor more than four million dollars' worth of silver per month. When the bill came back to the House it had become apparent to Mr. Bland, its author, that the Senate...
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Analysis of the Functions of Money

William Morris Stewart - Bimetallism - 1898 - 106 pages
...Representatives in Congress, requesting an immediate repeal of the BlandAllison act providing for the purchase of not less than two million nor more than four million dollars' worth of silver bullion per month to be coined into standard dollars. In that letter, among other things, he said:...
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